chasing geese through budapest
"You know, when you go home and tell your friends about all of this," he said, trying to encompass the whole backpacking experience with a sweep of his arm, "it's not going to go well. Actually, no one's going to give a shit."
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I've been surprised to learn in the last few weeks, however, that it's not just the non-travellers who are bored with backpackers. [snip] They're bored with staying in hostels and listening to teenagers talk about how drunk they got the night before, like they're the first ones to ever do it. They're bored with swapping the same old you-wouldn't-believe-what-I-did-today stories. They're bored with hearing over and over again about the latest "hot" destinations.
-- Ben Groundwater in Why Backpackers Are So Boring
This is known as "chasing goose through the casino" as in "oh, that reminds me of this time when I was chasing goose through a casino in budapest or whatever is a fashionably derelict place to visit.
The comments are interesting though.
posted by stu willis at
4:45 pm
1 Comments:
Totally agree. It's like the hostel circuit has become a glorified advertisement for the Lonely Planet travel book. I actually had more memorable times going into the wilderness, getting myself a room, seeing the sites and using my imagination. Pretty funny as the contrast with my previous trip was evident as I travelled.
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Damien, at Thu July 05, 05:37:00 pm AEST
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